Difference Between Informational And History Through Literature

When you learn history through reading there is a difference when your learning through literature vs informational. It has some facts but is mostly the author opinion in literature. But, in informational text It is all facts and the author has no opinion. When in literature it has some parts that are not facts but in informational it is all facts. Learning about history through literature is different from learning about history through informational texts because informational text has the purpose to inform, includes facts about real people, and does not include the author’s opinion. One difference in learning history through literature and learning history through informational text is how both of the stories have a different purpose. In
In literature there are some made up characters in the story. “Why, it’s the drummer boy, isn’t it?’ The boy nodded, not knowing if his nod was seen. ‘Sir, is that you?’ he said. ‘I assume it is.’ The man’s knees cracked as he bent still closer. He smelled as all fathers should smell, of salt sweat, ginger tobacco, horse and boot leather, and the earth he walked upon. He had many eyes. No, not eyes, brass buttons that watched the boy. He could only be, and was, the General. ‘What’s your name, boy?’ he asked. ‘Joby,’ whispered the boy, starting to sit up.” (Bradbury 321). This is because Joby is not a real person. And the author Ray Bradbury made him up. In informational text these people that are being mentioned are people who actually lived. “According to newspaper reports of the period, Clem's drum was smashed by a shell at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, earning him the nickname ‘Johnny Shiloh,’ and at the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863 he was said to have picked up a gun and shot a colonel off his horse.” (Netzley). That the person with the nickname Johnny Shiloh was areal person and the author didn’t make him up. Another way learning history through literature and informational text is different is the characters are real in one and not in the
The author puts his opinion in the writing when writing literature. “Thinking of everything ahead. Both sides figuring the other side will just give up, and soon, and the war done in weeks, and us all home. Well, that’s not how it’s going to be.” (Bradbury 321). And the author in the story Ray Bradbury puts his opinion on war in the war general’s words. The author is unbiased and has no opinion in the informational text. “Boy soldiers lost their childhoods to the war, but even children who did not enlist in the military had to grow up quickly in the Civil War years, particularly in the South. Southern children had to deal with many physical hardships as their homelands were turned into battlefields.” (Netzley). The author opinion is not put in this it just has only facts. A third way learning history through literature and informational text is different is the way that the author opinion is in one but not in the